Hamilton Southeastern Schools to Receive $2.1 Million From Lilly Endowment

HAMILTON COUNTY, IN. – It's a great day for Hamilton Southeastern Schools, as they've received a generous grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. The school corp. says they were given a grant of $2,103,501 as part of the Endowment's Comprehensive Counseling Initiative for Indiana K-12 students. Hamilton Southeastern Schools is one of 52 public school corporations and five charter schools in Indiana selected to put these plans into place to help them meet their students' academic, college, career, social and emotional needs, a school spokesperson said in a release.

Why this amount? The school corporation said the grant was based on their total enrollment, and will be used to improve counseling practices and access within our community. Thanks to the Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation, more than 21,000 Hamilton Southeastern Schools students will be served in these areas.

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The corporation also adds the grant will go towards an initiative they've already started working on, which is expanding students’ learning opportunities outside of the four walls of the classroom, to enhance college and career readiness for all students with various experiential learning opportunities.

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“Through this grant, the Lilly Endowment is providing the opportunity for HSE to expand its capacity to better address the unique, individual needs of each student we serve,” said Superintendent Dr. Allen Bourff, in a release.

According to a release, the Endowment has made a total of $26.4 million in implementation grants and $9.1 million in planning grants to help public school corporations and charter schools across Indiana improve strategies for school counseling. In addition, more than 250 public school corporations and charter schools reportedly submitted implementation proposals totaling nearly $90 million.

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